Alicornutopia

All the characters I've glowficced so far (Anda and Linsa and Singer) I have not defined enough in terms of sexual preferences to know where they'd end up (and also my brain objects a little to putting Anda and Linsa in this system due to some issues relating to the setting for which I invented them in the first place)

I do have a template that lives in my head (Amys) that would definitely end up as a dom by default, due to having a pretty strong anti-preference for subbing, and even default instances thinking tying people up is kind of a little bit hot. They have a base personality that probably reads as "subby" though. That combined with an attractor for at least one early Bad Relationship might mean they find out they don't like subbing in a somewhat unfortunate manner.

If people are interested, Flora is mostly okay with the system, but sets very, very, very clear boundaries of things she won't do. Amy is unhappy with the system, and can't figure out what she is for the longest time but then gives up and presents as sub-by-default.

I did specifically mean the templates were unhappy with it. The specific instances are, well, normal levels of socially malcontent for for their templates.

So Alicorn pointed out that I hadn't publicly said how any of my characters fit into this. Um. Let me. Do that now, while bright red.

Adarin's a sub, though a bit of a grumpy one that's actively 'do not order me around'-y, but when paired with someone they trust they will be perfectly okay with it. Zevi's a dom, that's not even in question. Yvette is a switch that defaults to dom because it's less trouble for her that way. Revan is 'WTF is all of this, can I get my agender-ness extended to this too and just go with what my partner would like, please and thank you,' but will put switch on paper if it's available because anything else seems incorrect. If switch is not available they go with dom, and is annoyed at how this is also incorrect. They default to dom mannerisms because of the two options that's easier for them to pull off.

Nadia is a dom. Jowan is a sub that really needs someone to manage him. Lynn is a dom who thought when she was younger that she was more switchy and then realized that nope, she is just a dom, Veron's a sub but likely has some trouble thinking that he needs to be a dom. Viandra is ace but would like to present typically as sub, but stop doing that when it's convenient for her, and Rae is ace but would like to present as fuck this shit and fuck it sideways you can't make him participate in any of this if he doesn't want to. ... But he's fine with other people doing it if they want to.

There, I think that's everybody.

Edit: Alicorn informed me I missed Lynn's husband, Savir. Switch.

Oh hey, categorization! :D

Ari: Switch, but commonly mistaken for pure dom and basically okay with that. Raised by SUPER dominant (and male, for some reason?) Belinda, who is a few millennia old and intermittently raises a well-fed mage tykebomb in the middle of the Sahara for the lulz, or whatever it is the kids say these days. (Also, for horrible child-grooming sex garbage. Fucking Belindas.)

Xan: Dom As All Fuck. Eclipsed early and snuck himself a meal so he'd have ULTIMATE COSMIC POWER. Then he killed his parents by accident ("whoops, I guess") and fled to the woods for traditional magely control training until he would no longer massacre absolutely everyone. (He was ABSOLUTELY NOT going to go for boot camp, thanks. Werewolf lifestyle.) Now doing the magic school thing.

Leo: Sub As All Fuck, but wears his hair short because Mom wanted a dom and he still feels bad. He starved himself before the eclipse like a good law-abiding citizen, and is now a thoroughly mediocre psion. Dating Xan, obviously.

I have vague ideas of the others, but am very tired and my plane is taking off, so they will have to wait.

On further thought, Eclipse Arthur and Suzy have requested their default state include a sub in a triad with them. Also, Suzy is a mage (flashy elementalist mostly), Arthur might be a psion but if so was initially locked down, and only later changed his mind and went back for training (possibly because Suzy eclipsed the next time it was available, though that violates the weak attractor for her to be older than him).

Going through the rest of my characters to see who I missed...

Moriarty girls: Chris is reasonably okay with presenting as a dom socially, except that she likes her hair and doesn't want to cut it. James will probably present as a sub in her legal identity, but will vary presentation among secret identities much as she does with gender.

Ekaterin: Sub-by-default, has had some bad experiences, quietly hates her life in almost precisely the inverse of how Gregor does. If I managed to crowbar them into the universe against the vocal protestations of both templates, I might actually end up shipping them, which otherwise I'm pretty sure will never happen.

Illyan: Declines to comment. When pressed, advises me to get a hobby. No, a better hobby. He recommends I invent Plasma Rain or something.

Piotr: One of the least reluctant doms on offer, but the template meta instance doesn't like what the setting might do to his personality and threatens to sic his grandkids on me if I try to put him there.

Bothari: Declines to comment. When pressed, produces either nopetopus gifs or violent fantasies of murdering me.

Rayne and Kingfisher: Kingfishers are vaguely dissatisfied switches or maybe subs-by-default depending on unclear factors about their teenage years. Raynes are doms, in a very "the person other subs warn you about" way. This setting does not do anything good for their relationship.

Sherlock: Switch. Might put sub on the paperwork if switch isn't an option. BDSM AU Sherlocks are slightly-more-deadly-than-average in a similar way to girl Sherlocks. Being in a BDSM AU actually makes them enjoy kinky stuff less than they normally would.

Tony: Dom on paperwork, socially a pretty obvious switch even if they try to hide it for convenience's sake; being in a BDSM AU makes them enjoy kinky stuff less than they normally would and they weren't super into it to begin with, so they probably have a lot of relationship trouble.

Cap: Ugh-dom-I-guess. Dislikes the whole concept.

Darcy: Declines to comment. When pressed, flips me off.

Ga*el: Switchy, indecisive about what to put on paperwork. If they meet and fall in love with someone who prefers them to take a nice simple role, they can more or less manage it, although less casually than they can do with gender.

Hall/Asterion: Dom, mostly, but would have trouble fitting this particular setting unless someone somewhere is producing genetically engineered supersoldiers. Also dominance is kind of an unhealthy mindset for him.

Hilary: Dom, but refuses to engage with the romantic or sexual implications; she's not quite ace/aro for the setting, but she's even less inclined to date than her already low baseline.

Ichabod: ROLE-ABOLOTIONIST REVOLUTIONARY.

Joker: Much in the way that a Joker's gender is "Joker" and their sexuality is "Joker", their role is also "Joker".

Liselen: Refuses to appear as a human or humanoid.

Matilda: Determined to escape the universe before she hits puberty.

Steven: Terrified of presenting as a sub; too terrified to present as a dom. May be driven to suicide by growing up in this setting.

StevenChainsaw: Not driven to suicide, but having a lot of trouble deciding which presentation he defaults to. Sub fits his innocuous and nonthreatening aesthetic more, but he thinks he'd give off too many conflicting body language cues and might be better off trying to present as an especially shy and reserved dom.

Tialle: Switch, dislikes the whole concept.

Pepper: Presents as a sub, somewhat grudgingly.

Wolverine: Preemptive nopetopus gif before I got around to asking. Willing to escalate to violent murder fantasies if I hadn't got the point, but I did.

Riya (The Mirror): Presents as a sub. Social anxiety wildly exacerbated by the extra layer of Stuff to deal with. Refuses to be ported to this world anyway because she's very particular about her magic systems.

John Blake: Ugh-dom-I-guess. Doesn't date unless he runs across someone very convincing, such as a Joker.

Zeke Mercer (burning_gold): Reluctant to be ported outside of Sunnyverse, but I suspect he'd be a switch if someone brought the BDSM AU to his setting.

Joker: Much in the way that a Joker's gender is "Joker" and their sexuality is "Joker", their role is also "Joker".

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Okay I've thought about this some more in terms of preferences as opposed to just roles. Emily is fairly conventional for a switch in that she's perfectly fine with domming for a sub or subbing for a dom, but on the other hand she's highly dissatisfied with doing only one of these in the long run--she'd be happy in a monogamous relationship with a sub or a dom in the short term, but long term she requires either a polyamorous relationship with at least one of each or a monogamous relationship with another switch. Edie...
Edie has zero interest in subbing for anyone, and does have a strong personal identification as a dom, but she is attracted to other doms. And people with weirder identifications than just "switch". She's probably somewhat dissatisfied with the system but not more than a typical modern Earth Edie is dissatisfied with gender identity/sexuality related systems there.

Nobody asked but you get my MWF characters anyway:

Eskay is an uncomplicated sub. Equalest is an opinionated dom.

Queen Hot is a mind-games dom. She will try to get you confused about what it is you want and why you're begging.

For kicks, I tried anthropomorphizing Exchange Engine. To my surprise, it cooperated. It's that obnoxious boy sub who does exactly literally what you tell him and somehow dodges the spirit entirely.

Novelty hasn't been constructed at a sexual age. If I try her in the world at her same age equivalency, she's pretty chill about the whole thing, and she's excited to see how she turns out.

Measuretwice also hasn't been constructed at a sexual age. If I try him anyhow, he's visibly uncomfortable with whatever people assume, whether that's boy->dom or shy->sub. His mother cuts his hair short.

Matilda: Determined to escape the universe before she hits puberty.

That is a remarkably quick time table. I think the easiest she could get magic is 10, and she obviously shouldn’t escape the universe until then. Even if she is a huge prodigy in learning control, I think she can’t have it down until she’s almost 12.